Hi All I recently acquired some HP Recovery Discs for my HP Pavilion 14 Sleekbook. What i did was i copied and merged the contents of each disc onto a 32GB USB Drive. The problem is when i try and boot from the USB drive it keeps giving me Recovery Your PC needs to be repaired A required device isn't connected or can't be accessed. Error code: 0xc000000f Ive tried booting the USB with Legacy Enabled and Secure Boot enabled but they both give me the same problem. The USB is formatted as FAT32 and i have tried setting the partition as active but still no luck. Does anyone have any idea on how i can get it to work? I really dont want to spend money buying a external power adapter for my SATA DVD Drive.
stupid question how do i do that? do i restore the MBR for the USB drive or the HDD in the laptop? Because the HDD in the laptop is formatted as GPT
You would only need to fix the mbr if it doesn't have a bootsector or doesn't boot. You have a bootsector, its loading the BCD, and is presenting you with a BCD error. I believe you are missing USB:\boot\boot.sdi or it has an improper reference to its location in the bcd. If it is there, you should should try to boot a single disk before merging them. Recovery disks may have non-standard locations for boot files.
Ok will try it now whats the difference between that command and this imagex /ref install*.swm /check /export install.swm * install.wim i get Error 87: The export image option is unknown?
I learned a long time ago, When Murphy78 give "code" 99.99% of the time it works... I use mostly his code to do all mine, USB Recovery Images to (modify) also Murphy78 way is easier and faster than this: Code: imagex /ref D:\wim\splitmerge\output2\install*.swm /check /e xport d:\wim\splitmerge\output2\install.swm 1 d:\wim\splitmerge\output3\install. wim "splitmerge" /COMPRESS maximum I had 6 .swm to merge.... so it took a lot longer and yet Murphy78 was/is faster